The Necessity of the Spirit's Conviction Because of the Incompetency of the Law
John 16:9
Of sin, because they believe not on me;


The law could not convince the world of sin as sin, a thing to be abhorred on account of its own hatefulness, but merely as a thing to be dreaded on account of the punishments attached to it. So that there was need of another witness who should search the heart and turn it inside out, and bring forward all the abominations contained in it; a witness, too, who should appeal not to its selfish fears, but to every germ of good left in it, to its love, its gratitude, its pity, its hope, its more generous desires and aspirations — a Witness that should pick up every little fragment of God's image still remaining in it, and should piece them all together, and make a new whole of them. Such was the Witness that God in His mercy sent to convince the world of sin.

(Archdeacon Hare.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Of sin, because they believe not on me;

WEB: about sin, because they don't believe in me;




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